Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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With The Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner experimented with new approaches to lyrics and chords that would later carry over into Arctic Monkeys.
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0:00 Two friends writing songs together
1:07 Origins
1:38 Experimenting with a vocal harmony
2:20 A song that triggered the second album
3:20 Everything You’ve Come to Expect
4:10 Changing the chords the week prior to recording
4:50 Certain chord types that later became prominent in Arctic Monkeys
5:08 Writing on keys opened up new chords
5:36 Lyrics
7:10 Music Video
8:00 A picture Alex had in his kitchen for a long time
8:20 Visual inspirations for AM6 & AM7
8:58 Writing songs in AM vs TLSP
9:20 A vehicle for experimentation
9:34 A close friendship
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